Thanks to our favorite young college football fan, Jack Hoffman, we’ve already had one truly inspirational story this year involving someone battling a life-threatening illness while using sports as a positive influence for recovery.

Michael Douglas, who's 68 and drank and smoked heavily for many years (he went to rehab for booze in 1992, though it's unclear whether he still smokes), was recently asked if he thought the stage 4 throat cancer he was diagnosed with in 2010 had anything to do with his drinking and smoking.